From post-war era beginning until 1956 - the year which the ministry of Labour celebrated the first half-century it had been in existence -, its division for Labour and Employment was a strikingly stable organisation. Nearly each of its high-ranking managers (the assistant principals, the...

Choosing to look at the “public administration of labour” rather than “admin-istered labour”, the author starts by analysing the components of the former which, more than an organic reality, can be defined as an institutional process developing over time. Without denying the importance...

The paper is based on intensive longitudinal field research. It suggests an interpretative model of territorial governement in France. Relations between national and local authorities as well as policy-making processes suggest that the centralized state has face a major decline of its hegemony...

usqu'où peut-on pousser les échanges et les transferts d'outils de gestion et d'aide à la décision entre la sphère marchande et la sphère non marchande de l'économie ? C'est ce problème, au coeur du nouveau management public, qui est abordé par l'auteur à travers le cas des critères...

This paper examines the reasons citizens would choose to accept or non-accept/reject public e-services. The approach taken was based on the model of acceptance of technology in households (MATH) and on the two factors theory. The research model was measured with data gathered in two phases, via...

This paper should be considered as a co-construction, a dialogue between a researcher in management science and a technician of public administration. We aim at discovering if sustainable development practices modify the meaning actors give to their work in the public administration field. We...

Bilan et prospective sur la notion de service public

Professional education and labour have been nationally deregulated. On the EU-level there is, however, a dynamic integration and re-regulation away from ‘hard tools’ and a growing importance of ‘soft regulation’. The aim of this article is to study the development of methods for...